Extract from Topical Justice Questions (Commons): NCA - May 18
Wednesday, 19 May 2021 08:24
Dr Luke Evans (Bosworth) (Con) [V]: I met with TSB last week to
discuss fraud and was surprised to find out that there has been a
big increase in young people being subject to fraud. TSB’s internal
research showed that over 50% of these scams and frauds directly
involved social media. What does my hon. Friend believe should be
done about that, and what conversations are taking place with the
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to develop ways to
clamp down on this in the light...Request free trial
(Bosworth) (Con) [V]: I met with TSB last
week to discuss fraud and was surprised to find out that there has
been a big increase in young people being subject to fraud. TSB’s
internal research showed that over 50% of these scams and frauds
directly involved social media. What does my hon. Friend believe
should be done about that, and what conversations are taking place
with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to
develop ways to clamp down on this in the light of the online harms
Bill?
The Minister for Crime and Policing ():
My hon. Friend rightly identifies an expanding area of
business, sadly, for the courts and the police. He will be pleased
to know that just last week, I held a meeting with the National
Economic Crime Centre at the National Crime Agency to talk
specifically about this issue. He will understand the complexity of
online fraud in particular, whereby the offender may well be
overseas, laundering money through a third territory and banking it
in a fourth. Nevertheless, we need to do more to increase our
capacity and capability to tackle this issue, to which we are all,
including me, subject.
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